Vision-Language Pretraining papers, 2023–2026
Contrastive pretraining
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 263 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Vision-Language Pretraining went from 65 papers in 2023 to 87 in 2026, roughly 1.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Vision-Language Pretraining work: 93 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 9 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Open-Vocabulary Vision, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Visual Grounding, is up 4.3x versus 1.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24 | 13 | 8 | 20 | 65 |
| 2024 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 18 | 55 |
| 2025 | 26 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 56 |
| 2026 | 27 | 14 | 19 | 27 | 87 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Optimizers for Large Language Model Pretraining
- ICML 2026How Does the Pretraining Distribution Shape In-Context Learning? A Fundamental Trade-Off
- ICLR 2026PonderLM: Pretraining Language Models to Ponder in Continuous Space
- CVPR 2026Large-scale Codec Avatars The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025ADPretrain: Advancing Industrial Anomaly Detection via Anomaly Representation Pretraining
- ICML 2025Soup-of-Experts: Pretraining Specialist Models via Parameters Averaging
- ICLR 2025Attributing Culture-Conditioned Generations to Pretraining Corpora
- CVPR 2025MAP: Unleashing Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone's Potential with Masked Autoregressive Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2024Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
- ICML 2024Position: Considerations for Differentially Private Learning with Large-Scale Public Pretraining
- ICLR 2024Demystifying CLIP Data
- CVPR 2024ParameterNet: Parameters Are All You Need for Large-scale Visual Pretraining of Mobile Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Bootstrapping Vision-Language Learning with Decoupled Language Pre-training
- ICML 2023Contrastive Learning Meets Homophily: Two Birds with One Stone
- ICLR 2023Energy-Inspired Self-Supervised Pretraining for Vision Models
- CVPR 2023Active Finetuning: Exploiting Annotation Budget in the Pretraining-Finetuning Paradigm
- NeurIPS 2026C3P: Contrastive promoter-protein pretraining yields representations capturing bacterial gene regulation
- ICML 2026Multipole Semantic Attention: A Fast Approximation of Softmax Attention for Pretraining
- ICLR 2026MICLIP: Learning to Interpret Representation in Vision Models
- CVPR 2026The Surprising Effectiveness of Noise Pretraining for Implicit Neural Representations
All Vision-Language Pretraining papers
26 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 20254D-VLA: Spatiotemporal Vision-Language-Action Pretraining with Cross-Scene Calibration
- NeurIPS 2025ADPretrain: Advancing Industrial Anomaly Detection via Anomaly Representation Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025AmorLIP: Efficient Language-Image Pretraining via Amortization
- NeurIPS 2025Analyzing Similarity Metrics for Data Selection for Language Model Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025Born a Transformer -- Always a Transformer? On the Effect of Pretraining on Architectural Abilities
- NeurIPS 2025CLIPTTA: Robust Contrastive Vision-Language Test-Time Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning As Neural Manifold Packing
- NeurIPS 2025Critical Batch Size Revisited: A Simple Empirical Approach to Large-Batch Language Model Training
- NeurIPS 2025EgoDTM: Towards 3D-Aware Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Contrastive Learning with Variable Similarity
- NeurIPS 2025Exploring Polyglot Harmony: On Multilingual Data Allocation for Large Language Models Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025Filter Like You Test: Data-Driven Data Filtering for CLIP Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025From Faults to Features: Pretraining to Learn Robust Representations against Sensor Failures
- NeurIPS 2025From Pretraining to Pathology: How Noise Leads to Catastrophic Inheritance in Medical Models
- NeurIPS 2025Group-Level Data Selection for Efficient Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025Meta CLIP 2: A Worldwide Scaling Recipe
- NeurIPS 2025MuRating: A High Quality Data Selecting Approach to Multilingual Large Language Model Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025Mysteries of the Deep: Role of Intermediate Representations in Out of Distribution Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Object Concepts Emerge from Motion
- NeurIPS 2025Object-centric binding in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
- NeurIPS 2025REVE: A Foundation Model for EEG - Adapting to Any Setup with Large-Scale Pretraining on 25,000 Subjects
- NeurIPS 2025The Mirage of Performance Gains: Why Contrastive Decoding Fails to Mitigate Object Hallucinations in MLLMs?
- NeurIPS 2025Tracing the Representation Geometry of Language Models from Pretraining to Post-training
- NeurIPS 2025UniDomain: Pretraining a Unified PDDL Domain from Real-World Demonstrations for Generalizable Robot Task Planning
- NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-UniViTAR: Unified Vision Transformer with Native Resolution
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FAQ
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 263 in total: 65 in 2023, 55 in 2024, 56 in 2025, 87 in 2026.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 27 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 26 the year before.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 14 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 17 the year before.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 19 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 3 the year before.
- How many Vision-Language Pretraining papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 27 Vision-Language Pretraining papers, versus 10 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Vision-Language Pretraining papers?
- NeurIPS, with 93 papers from 2023 to 2026.